Alexandre Dumas Quotes
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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The Greeks invented both their artistic and scientific novelties after the interiorization of the alphabet. (p. 66)
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Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
